SINCE MAKING A Murderer took over our lives for a brief couple of weeks back at the start of 2016, the hunt has been on for a real-life crime documentary to rival it.
And it looks like Netflix has pulled something out of the bag that has serious promise.
It’s called The Keepers and it documents the story of an unsolved murder in Baltimore in 1969
As the description says, this isn’t just any old story:
Sister Catherine “Cathy” Cesnik, a 26-year-old nun and teacher in Baltimore, vanished in 1969. Her body was found about two months later, but her death has never been solved.
Vanity Fair has been quick to compare it to the Avery series – as it ticks all the boxes that made Making a Murderer so compelling:
It’s possible, of course, that there is no “next” Making a Murderer. Perhaps, though, we’ve just been waiting all this time for The Keepers, an upcoming seven-part (ding) series on Netflix (ding) that investigates the “unsolved murder of a nun and the horrific secrets and pain that linger nearly five decades after her death” (ding ding ding).
The poster itself is intriguing enough
But as People Magazine revealed yesterday, Netflix haven’t released any further details on what the seven-part documentary will reveal.
However, The Huffington Post writes today that their investigation in 2015 shows that another unnamed woman came forward in the ’90s to “share her experience of sexual abuse at the hands of the school’s chaplain” – so perhaps that holds the key to Netflix’s fresh take on the case.
All we know so far is that it drops on Netflix exactly one month from tomorrow – and that the tagline reads:
this will have everyone asking the question ‘who killed Sister Cathy?’
Sounds riveting.
